Abstract
Maximum growth of L1210 cells in culture required the presence of free extracellular calcium ions. Reducing the free extracellular calcium ion concentration with EGTA served to decrease the growth rate of the cells. The decrease in cell growth was not due to cell death but rather due to the “pile-up” of the L1210 cells in the GO/G1 phase of the cell cycle. With the readdition of excess calcium ions, there was a lag period of 3 to 6 hours before the L1210 cells initiated DNA synthesis or transited from the GO/G1 phase to S-phase. Cells enriched for S and G2/M phases by elutriation and which were incubated in EGTA-containing culture medium, continued through the cell cycle and were blocked in GO/G1. These data indicate that the proliferation of L1210 cells in culture requires a calcium ion-dependent process to allow movement from the GO/G1 to S-phase of the cell cycle.
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